Thursday, October 14, 2010

Where is Waldoniel?

Wonder bread

Since my latest culinary entry drew such recriminations, I am sending you this truly wonder bread from my next stop, at an open air market stall, freezing my buns. See, I do have simple tastes, big, coarse, tasty dark bread...

The picture is sideways. I edited it right but somehow it seems that blogger is acting up again and refuses to put it up straight. Also after you guess the country I can make it this a double entry by putting a picture form the city to guess.

44 comments:

A lot of choices but Russian Black Bread comes to mind. This allows me to comment that what Russians missed most about the fall of the Soviet Union was that they no longer got a free loaf per person per day. A sharp contrast to the 8BsF Bolivarian Arepas!

Could be anywhere. Could be even Belgium, where you have quite French bread and also a bit of German bread varieties (the essentials, not so much the Sonnenblumenbrötchen and the like). But selling bread in the open and at these temperatures is not such a good idea, so it may be elsewhere or in some little town.

Based on the dark bread, the fact that there IS an open air market, the fact that the street has granite pavers, and the fact that it is already cold there, I am guessing north eastern Europe. So, my guess is Prague, Czech Republic.

OK, not Germany, Switzerland, Russia, France, BeNeLux, or Poland...I'm going to rule out Italy and the UK, as well. How about Austria? The sweet-looking bread wrapped in plastic seems like it would fit there.

7 years ago, i was sent by my company to work on a SW project for a new 5-Stars hotel being built in Ljubljana of Slovenia (this is my first and only trip to EU so far which i also had a chance to visited Venice, Milan, Vienna, Budapest). The owner of this new hotel is an Austrian company.

I had worked with Germans, Italians, Autrians, Slovenians and Swiss on this project for 3 months plus.

One weekend, an Austrian friend that i worked with gave me a ride to Vienna. I remember i saw dark brown breads similar to the one in Daniel's picture in a super market that i visited in Vienna. That was an interesting bread that i have not seen such similar bread in Toronto super markets that i usually buy my grocery.

Daniel, if you have time take the train to visit Budapest and Ljubljana.

I still have a very fond memory about this train trip from Vienna (WEST EUROPE) to Budapest then back to Ljubljana (EAST EUROPE).

So did clobber, just in separate posts (not to mention an earlier guess). Using that logic, the winner is 1979bp. Credit where credit is due. Though if you're citing ex aequo, it's your blog, so the "case" is already closed.

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